Razor-strop.



Patented Sept. I0, IQDI. J. H. KEATiNG.

RAZOR STBUP.

(Application led Mar. 29, 1901.)

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JOHN II. KEATING, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAZO R-STRO P.

SPECIFICATION forming part 0f Lettel Patent NO. 682,358, dated September 10, 1901. Application iiled March 29, l1901. Serial No. 53,397 (No model.)

To LZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. HEATING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Razor-Strops, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates more particularly to improvements in duplex razor-strops and has especial reference to the bail or holder by which the strops are suspended; and my invention has for its primary object to provide an improved and simple form of bail whereby the two strops may be suspended and each readily reversed, thus affording four stropping-surfaces.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain features of novelty in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts by which the said objects and certain other objects hereinafter appearing are attained, all as fully described with reference to the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the said drawings,- Figure 1 is an eleva tion or face View of my improved razor-strop. Fig. 2 is a side view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail plan View of the bail or holder; and Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view of the bail or holder, taken on the line 1l 4, Fig. 1.

1 2 represent the two strops, which may be of the usual or any suitable construction and composed, respectively, of leather and canvas or any other suitable material, and the upper ends of these are provided with loops 3 4, respectively, which embrace opposite sides of a rigid rectangular link or iiattened ring 5, thus supporting the strops face to face with capability of being reversed with relation to each other. From the upper side of this ring or link 5 extends a rigid bail 6, which, if desired, may be formed integrally with or rigidly secured to the ends of the link 5, and to this bail is pivoted a ring 8, where-l by the strop may be suspended from a nail, hook, or other support while being used, and from the lower side of the rigid link or ring 5, preferably diametrically opposite and inline with the bail 6, is a similar bail 9, formed on or rigidlysecured to the rigid ring or link 5 and so arranged that when the strops are in use it will occupy a position between them, and this additional bail 9 is likewise provided with a supporting-ring 10, swiveled or otherwise connected therewith.

With a strop thus constructed it will be seen that with the parts in the position shown in the drawings the outer surfaces of the two strops may be quickly turned into position for use by simply rotating the strop on the swivel of the ring 8, and when it is desired to use either or both of their inner surfaces it is simply necessary to lower the supportingring 8 from the nail or hook and support the strop thereon by means of the lower ring 10, thus reversing the individual strops with relation to each other.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a duplex razor-strop the combination of a pair of strops, a rigid ring or link to opposite sides of which said strops are attached respectively and supporting-hails extending upwardly and downwardly from and rigidly secured to opposite sides'of said link, substantially as set forth.

2. A holder for duplex razor-strops comprising a rigid rectangular link, the bails, rigidly secured to the sides of the link respectively above and beneath the same and the supporting-rings swiveled to the respective bails.

JOHN H. KEATING. Witnesses:

EDNA B. JOHNSON, JNO. G. ELLIOTT. 

